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PERKINS, JACOB (1766-1849)

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 173 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PAS-PER
PERKINS, JACOB (1766-1849) , American inventor and physicist, was born at Newburyport,
Massachusetts
 , in 1766, and was apprenticed to a goldsmith. He soon made himself known by a variety of useful mechanical inventions, and in 1818 came over to
England
  with a plan for engraving bank-notes on steel, which ultimately proved a
signal
  success, and was carried out by Perkins in partnership with the
English
  engraver Heath. His
chief
  contribution to physics lay in the experiments by which he proved the compressibility of water and measured it by a piezometer of his own invention (see Phil. Trans.,1820, 1826). He retired in 1834, and died in London on the 3oth of July 1849.
His second son, ANGIER
MARCH
  PERKINS (1799?-1881), also born at Newburyport, went to
England
  in 1827, and was the author of a
system
  of warming buildings by means of high-pressure steam. His grandson, LOFTUS PERKINS (1834-1891), most of whose
life
  was spent in England, experimented with the application to steam engines of steam at very high pressures, constructing in 188o a yacht, }t~he " Anthracite," whose engines worked with a pressure of 500 rb to the sq. in.


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